Media Coverage

Who's Bigger? Where Historical Figures Really Rank

• Interview with author Steven Skiena Critical Margins, September 25, 2013.
• Appearence on Azerbaijan TV (AZTV) Morning Show October 22, 2013. See also photos from Shamil Mehdiyev, George Plosker, and AICT2013.

TextMap/Lydia News Analysis and General Sentiment

• Fame, Once Established, Is Not Fleeting, T. Jacobs, The Pacific Standard, May 2, 2013.
• 15 minutes of fame may last longer,The Statesman, April 15, 2013.
• Why the famously famous never fade from view, Los Angeles Times, March 28, 2013.
• Lindsay Lohan is Here to Stay: Fame Not Fleeting, Study Finds, Yahoo News, March 28, 2013.
• Fame is `extremely sticky,' not fleeting, say researchers, The Globe and Mail, March 28, 2013.
• `True fame' isn't fleeting, study says The Star, March 28, 2013.
• Predicting The Future: Fantasy Or A Good Algorithm? by Dina Temple-Raston, National Public Radio, Morning Edition, October 9, 2012.
• Fatwire Founders in New Software Venture, Newsday, December 8, 2011.
• Weird science at LI labs, Long Island Business News, October 21, 2011.
• Patent of the Week: Large-scale Sentiment Analysis Long Island Business News, August 19, 2011.
• Hey Google: It's Not Your Sentiment Analytics! SemanticWeb.com, December 22, 2010.
• Google Calls General Sentiment's Technology a 'World-Class Sentiment Analysis System', PR Newswire, December 17, 2010. General Sentiment strikes back at Google! :-)
• Being Bad to Your Customers is Bad for Business, Google Blog, December 1, 2010. Google claims Lydia's "world-class sentiment analysis system" as its own!
• A Web startup demos a predictive search engine, Marketing by Raj, October 17, 2010.
• Find for the Spy by Elena Cernenko, Newsweek Russia, October 10, 2010. Translated from the Russian and as text.
• Andrew Tours Canrock Ventures, Announces Buisness Council, October 4, 2010. Governor-to-be Andrew Cuomo visits General Sentiment technical meeting. (explaining TextMap technology to Cuomo, detail).
• See the Future with a Search by Tom Simonite, Technology Review, October 4, 2010.
• Forget Those Games in Vancouver. We Haven't Finished Analyzing the Super Bowl Ads New York Times, Media Decoder, February 18, 2010.
• The vlaue of Online Buzz for the Top 20 Brands, TechCrunch, February 8, 2010.
• Westbury Tech Guru Builds Word Search Software, Newsday, December 24, 2009 by James Bernstein.
• Algoritmos para animar el verano en la ciudad El Mundo, Diario de Soria (Spanish) July 13, 2006. Includes a dramatic picture of me in front of a news heatmap.
• El congreso de Matematica discreta busca dinamizar la investigacion Heraldo de Soria (Spanish) July 12, 2006. Includes a dramatic picture of me in front of a sleeping audience.
• Idean buscador internet para conocer los 'ma's malos' del mundo La Vanguardia (Spanish), July 17, 2006. Original Link

Apple Tablet: Computer of the Year 2000

• Tablet computer: an idea whose time has finally come... Engineering at Illinois, January 27, 2010.
• SBU Computer Science Professor was part of College Team that Designed an Early Version of Apple's iPad Tablet Computer Stony Brook News, January 27, 2010.
• Apple's New Device Looks Like a Winner. From 1988. The New York Times, January 28, 2010.
• Jury's out on iPad's impact on media consumption Newsday, January 28, 2010.
• Apple iPad Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree, Stony Brook Press, February 17, 2010.
• Which Steve invented the iPad?, Bit-Player, March 30, 2010.
• Computer of 2000 Looks a lot like the iPad, The Californian, April 3, 2010.
• The iPad. of 2000. As Envisioned in 1988, Technologizer, May 14, 2010.
• Pretty good predictions on tablet computing from UI scientists - except timing, The News-Gazette (Champaign-Urbana IL), May 20, 2010.
• Tablet: personal computer of the year 2000, Communications of the ACM, 31, 638-648, June 1988.

Airplane Boarding

• Let Einstein help you board your plane New Scientist (top story!) July 29, 2006 issue 2562. Original link

  The journal version of our paper: Analysis of aeroplane boarding via spacetime geometry and random matrix theory appeared in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General. and was honored as an IOP Select paper.

• All aboard, with a little help from Einstein by Hames Randerson, The Guardian July 27, 2006. Original link.
• Getting passengers in their seats is as easy as E=mc2, by Ian Johnston, The Scotsman, July 27, 2006. Original link.
• Plane Geometry: Scientists Help Speed Boarding of Aircraft Wall Street Journal (front page!) November 2, 2005. See here for a local copy of the WSJ article.

  The conference version of our paper: Eitan Bachmat, Daniel Berend, Luba Sapir, Steven Skiena "Airplane Boarding, Disk Scheduling and Space-Time Geometry" appeared in the Proceedings of Algorithmic Applications in Management: First International Conference, AAIM 2005, Xian, China, June 22-25, 2005. Volume 3521, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

• Warped geometry could cut airline boarding delays by Philip Ball, Nature, December 2005. See here for a copy of the Nature article.
• Israeli Researchers Fly By The Numbers by Allison Kaplan Sommer, The Jewish Press, December 21, 2005. See here for a copy of the Jewish Press article.
• Travellers' scrum fills plane quickly by David Millward and Roger Highfield, Daily Telegraph, London. December 22, 2005. See here for a copy of the Daily Telegraph article.
• How you get on a plane is relative, really Independent Online, South Africa December 23, 2005. See here for a copy of the article.
• Einstein's theory of boarding aeroplanes Daily Times, Pakistan, December 23, 2005. See here for a copy of the article.
• Israeli researchers fly by the numbers Israel 21C, December 18, 2005. See here for a copy of the article.
• Attention Everyone in Groups A, B and C, and Rows 42 Through 1 World Hum, CA, December 14, 2005. See here for a copy of the article.
• Israeli Researcher: Airplane Boarding Inefficient Arutz Sheva, Israel. December 21, 2005. See here for a copy of the article.
• It's just plane stupid The Sun, England. December 21, 2005. See here for a copy of the article.
• Einstein's theory of boarding aeroplanes Ananova, United Kingdom. December 22, 2005. See here for a copy of the article.
• Airlines change how they herd us aboard USA Today. January 9, 2006. See here for a copy of the article.
• Now boarding row N blog by Brian Hayes.
• Getting fliers on jets faster USA Today. June 26, 2006. See here for a copy of the article.

Lazy Bureaucrat Problem

• Lazy Bureaucrats The Guardian (UK). February 9, 2010.
• Stony Brook Study Cited in Guardian Stony Brook News, February 17, 2010.
• The Lazy Bureaucrat. Shrink Rap. February 18, 2010.
• Making Lazy Bureaucrats Work, Industrial Engineer, p. 15, May 2010.

Virus Designs for Vaccines

• Computational Biologist Steven Skiena on Keeping Designer Viruses Out of the Wrong Hands New York Genome Center Blog, December 4, 2012.
• Genes ex silico: Computer-designed virus yields phenotype expression benefits Physorg.com, August 29, 2011.
• Chapter 8: Steve Skiena, Programming Bugs in Natural Computing: DNA, Quantum Bits and the Future of Smart Machines by D. Shasha and C. Lazere, Norton, 2010.
• Computer scientist engineers tame type of live vax Fierce Vaccines, July 15, 2010.
• Scientists Use Computer Algorithms to Develop Seasonal Flu Vaccines Science Daily, July 10, 2010.
• A less fit flu virus Science-Business eXchange (SciBX), July 19, 2010.
• Weakened flu virus proves ideal vaccine New Scientist, June 22, 2010.
• SBU Team Creates Computer-Aided Influenza Virus Vaccine Method Could Lead To Effective And Safe Seasonal Vaccines Stony Brook Medical Center, June 16, 2010.
• Computer-Aided Influenza virus Vaccine Createed, Newswise, June 16, 2010.
• Computer-Aided Influenza Virus Vaccine Created, Infection Control Today, June 16, 2010.
• Computer-Aided Influenza Virus Vaccine Created, Medical News Today, June 16, 2010.
• SBU Team Creates Computer-Aided Influenza Virus Vaccine Method Could Lead To Effective And Safe Seasonal Vaccines, Stony Brook News, June 16, 2010.
• Live attenuated influenza virus vaccines by computer-aided rational design Nature Biotechnology, June 13, 2010.
• Researchers Design Customized "Wimpy" Polioviruses -- A New Path to Vaccines?. Infection Control Today, June 30, 2008.
• Scientists design a new class of weakened polioviruses. Science Centric, June 29, 2008.
• Fake virus coult make safe new vaccines. Reuters, June 27, 2008.
• Biased Viruses Suggest New Vaccine Strategy for Polio and Other Diseases. Martin Enserink, Science Magazine, June 27, 2008.
• Viruses Rewritten. Science News, June 26, 2008.
• Customized `Wimpy' Polioviruses Designed: A New Path to Vaccines?. Science Daily, June 26, 2008.
• Mosquito Wars: Scientists Take a Swat. LiveScience, June 26, 2008.
• `Alien Code' Leads to Faster Vaccines. New Scienist, June 3, 2006

DNA Sequence Assembly

• Moving From Simulations to Real Data, Short-Read Assemblers Start Facing Off. InSequence, March 20, 2008.
• New Algorithms Indicate that `Microread' Genome Assembly May be Within Reach. BioInform, April 13, 2007.

Correcting Shift Errors in Standardized Exams

• Nobody's Perfect. Neither Is the Test. New York Times. April 2, 2006. See here for a copy of the article

Calculated Bets and Jai-Alai

• Interview on The Exchange Connecticut TV 12, September 3, 2001.
• Sports and gambling -- the American way? The Times Newspapers, December 9, 2001.
• Is winning on football wagers an impossible goal? The Home News Tribune, February 3, 2002.
• A Professor Bets on Jai Alai -- with Computer Models The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 8, 2002.
• Read This! The MAA Online book review column July 29, 2002.
• The American Statistician, November 2002, volume 56 number 4.
• Jai-alai USA review April 15, 2003.
• Review of Calculated Bets, Ian Kaplan, July 2003. volume 56 number 4.
• Association Mathematique du Quebec Magazine (review in French by Robert Bilinski) December 2004. Original Link
• Book Review -- Calculated Bets UK Horse Racing
• Review of Calculated Bets, Casino Online, United Kingdom, with an author interview, November 2009
• Steven Skiena: Betting on Jai Alai, Buber's Basque Page, May 24, 2010.
• Interview on The House of Cards radio show, host Ashley Adams, broadcast week of June 7, 2010.
• 7 Essential Skills You Didn't Learn in College: Statistical Literacy, Wired Magazine, October 2010.
• 15 Brilliant Math Geeks Who Outsmarted the System www.bestcollegesonline.com, November 2, 2011.

Reviews of The Algorithm Design Manual

• The Algorithm Design Manual vs. Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen Stackoverflow, April 16, 2011.
• Computer Science Video Lectures Worth Watching Computer Science and Programming Haven, April 9, 2009.
• The Algorithm Design Manual, 2nd ed by Steven S. Skiena Review by Steven Parkes Reviewed October, 2008
• Don't Panic -- Help is at Hand Review by Harold Thimbleby of The Algorithm Design Manual, 2nd ed. in Times Higher Education Supplement, November 27, 2008.
• Ten Great Books Blog by Steve Yegge, November 18, 2004.

Other: Programming Contests, Mathematics, and Patents

• Welcome Steven Skiena, HackerRank Blog, October 6, 2013.
• Envisioning Tiny Apartments, No Bathroom Required, New York Times, February 4, 2013.
• The Probability of Pennies Samuel Arbesman, Wired, Wierd Science Blog, February 6, 2012.
• Think Globally, Steven Strogatz, New York Times, March 22, 2010. Dijkstra's algorithm animation.
• In the Spotlight: Steven S. Skiena Springer Author News, September 2008.
• Matematica Discreta y Algoritmica Spanish News Service Universia.es. Original link. July 11, 2006.
• Code Warriors: Young computer programmers battle for fame, money, and the love of algorithms the Chronicle of Higher Education, April 8, 2005.
• Mathematica Featured User April 28, 2003. Original Link
• SUNY Scientists Awarded Patent for Virtual Reality Software SUNY Press Release, July 24, 2002.